Quotes About Connection

we shall always be, you and i, alone upon the earth, to begin life.

Between the lips and the voice something goes dying.

I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you

Zabranjeno je zaboraviti da bez tebe ovaj svijet ne bi bio isti

Love, love, until the night collapses

De tus caderas a tus pies quiero hacer un largo viaje.

as if I had never walked except with you, my heart, as if I could not walk except with you, as if I could not sing except when you sing.

In my poems I could not shut the door to the street.

I want to fill my mouth with your name.

In you I waver, fall and rise up burning. You among all beings have the right to see me weak.

Entonces,dónde estabas? Entre qué gentes? Diciendo qué palabras? Por qué se me vendrá todo el amor de golpe Cuando me siento triste,y te siento tan lejana?

Cuando no puedo mirar tu cara...miro tus pies.

y juntos somos completos como un solo río, como una sola arena.

Pero tú y yo, amor mío, estamos juntos, juntos desde la ropa a las raíces, juntos de otoño, de agua, de caderas, hasta ser sólo tú, sólo yo juntos.

I loved you without knowing that I love you; I tried to think about you.

Lovely one, your eyes are too big for your face, your eyes are too big for the earth. There are countries, there are rivers, in your eyes, my country is your eyes, I walk through them, they light the world through which I walk, lovely one. — Pablo Neruda, from "Lovely One," The Captain's Verses: Love Poems . (New Directions Publishing Corporation; Bilingual edition July 2004) Originally published 1952.

Para mi corazón basta tu pecho, para tu libertad bastan mis alas.

De nadie seré, solo de ti. Hasta que mis huesos se vuelvan cenizas y mi corazón deje de latir.

He was my friend in everyday life and now I have lost his affection, which was part of my daily bread. No one will be able to give me what he has taken with him, because his active brotherly spirit was one of my life's treasured luxuries.

if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

I love the handful of the earth you are. Because of its meadows, vast as a planet, I have no other star. You are my replica of the multiplying universe.

T]here arises an insight, which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.

and in your life my infinite dreams live.

Y yo, mínimo ser, ebrio del gran vacío constelado, a semejanza, a imagen del misterio, me sentí parte pura del abismo, rodé con las estrellas, mi corazón se desató en el viento.